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From: kurtk@tekcae.CAX.TEK.COM (Kurt Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Are magnets harmful?
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Date: 8 Mar 89 17:37:33 GMT
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Reply-To: kurtk@tekcae.CAX.TEK.COM (Kurt Krueger)
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I've seen more than one reference from people who have erased floppy disks by
rubbing a permanent magnet across them.  If you do this with an audio tape, it
is a very good way to get your tape player's head magnetized.  The result is
that your tape player will slowly erase the tapes as they are played.

Is this a problem with computer floppies?  Or is the design of floppy disk
heads and media such that this is a non issue?